On Tuesday, Lang's eyes almost popped out, and Man Bao couldn't help but let out a cry, and finally couldn't pretend to be honest, and poked his head out from behind the second brother, "Has the price of beans increased?"
"Bean? It has risen, but it's not so outrageous. Now it seems to be twelve cents a bucket." The stall owner glanced at the crowd rushing in to buy things, and lowered his voice: "But I guess there will be more in the future." It will rise again, so if your family has grain, don’t sell it to grain merchants lightly, if you press it again, you may be able to sell it at a higher price.”
His eyes were bright on Tuesday, but at the same time he felt distressed. After the autumn harvest last year, his family sold a batch of grain. If they had kept it, they would have at least doubled their income now...
Man Bao's eyes were also bright, and he glanced at their tofu, then grabbed his second brother by the shoulder, leaned into his ear and whispered: "Second brother, our tofu has to increase in price."
Zhou Zhoulang also quickly came back to his senses, took a look at their tofu, and then at the street where the traffic was gradually increasing.
He carefully observed their faces, clothes and expressions, and soon found many unfamiliar faces.
In the same way, Luojiang County is only so big, and there are only so many nearby villages. Most of the people who come to this street have seen Zhou Yilang.
He is very good at remembering people, not as good as Man Bao, but he can remember it after meeting a few times, at least he will feel familiar.
And now, quite a few of the customers picking things up on the street he doesn't know.
He coughed lightly, carried Man Bao to the booth and stood up, lowered his voice and said, "Don't move, Lao Liu, you take them here to look at the booth, and I'll take a stroll."
Of course, such things as price increases cannot be said to rise immediately. You must first read other people's market prices before talking about it.
Inquiring about the other party's price is something that Zhou Yilang often does. He coughed lightly, and went shopping with Shi Shiran behind his back.
Liu Liulang squatted behind the booth and asked Da Ya to start wrapping the flowers on the small bamboo baskets, while Man Bao was responsible for taking out the sugar from the cloth bag and putting them in.
He stared at the figure of the second brother, and asked Man Bao: "Why do you think the second brother is going?"
"Go and ask the price," Man Bao used to say: "I don't think you need to ask. Anyway, our house sells tofu on the same street, and there will be no difference between high and low."
Having said that, Zhou Zhoulang still wandered from the end of the street to the street, asked the prices of most of the stalls, and observed their business conditions by the way.
Then he came back excited.
He said: "The price of bamboo weaving has not increased, but all food has increased, and the price of vegetables has also increased. I think their business is not bad. I will try to sell it today. If it is good, I will not bring bamboo weaving tomorrow." Yes, we specially picked vegetables."
Man Bao said: "We don't have many vegetables at home."
Although the vegetable garden was not flooded, many vegetables were rotten due to too much rain.
Zhou Zhoulang comforted her and said: "It's okay, let my sister-in-law take out the pickles at home."
Man Bao: ... I don't want to eat pickles, I want to eat fresh ones.
Both Saturday Lang and Datou Daya couldn't help looking at Tuesday Lang.
Zhou Yilang directly reached out to straighten their heads, and said, "Don't look at me, the family is short of money, we have to seize the opportunity to save more money."
Man Bao felt that the sky and the earth were too big, so he said, "Elder sister is not in a hurry to ask for money."
"It's not the big sister, it's the autumn tax." Zhou Zhoulang lowered his voice and said: "Father calculated it two days ago. What about taxes?"
That is to say, Man Bao is a scholar and understands these things, Zhou Zhoulang will explain to her, and he will not say more if it is another child, just suppress it by force.
Look, Datou and Daya were dumbfounded, apparently half-understood, and Liu Liulang also understood, he sighed sadly, and asked: "Then second brother, are you still going to the county government office?"
Tuesday Lang hesitated.
Da Ya quietly poked Man Bao.
Man Bao immediately threw away the messy things like the autumn tax, and looked at Zhou Zhoulang with piercing eyes, "Second brother, why don't you wait for us here, you see that there are a little more people on the street, but it's not chaotic. We Just go by yourself."
Zhou Zhoulang saw the light in her eyes, and his face was a little sad, "Man Bao, do you despise the second brother so much?"
"No, no, I don't dislike my second brother, I just don't think I can delay my second brother's earning a lot of money."
Liu Liulang and Datou Daya nodded fiercely at the same time, and replied: "Yes!"
Zhou Zhou Lang glanced at the customers passing by on the street, hesitated for a moment and said: "Okay, Lao Liu, you should watch them come, hold hands, and don't get lost. Also, don't get into disputes with others, if you accidentally get involved It’s troublesome, just let it go, be patient for a while, don’t be aggressive, if you can’t do it, just ask the yamen servant to understand?”
"clear!"
Liu Liulang immediately went to carry the basket with the small bamboo baskets on his back, the big head rushed to carry the basket with flowers, the big girl carried the flower baskets she had just woven, Man Bao also snatched two, and the four of them happily shared with Zhou Jiro waved goodbye.
Zhou Zhoulang saw them wagging their tails happily like fish taken out of a fishing net and put into the river, and disappeared after swiping twice.
He couldn't help but shook his head, the stall owner next door obviously saw it too, and he was quite familiar with these children, and Liu Liulang, saw him and said with a smile: "Your children are really clever .”
Zhou Zhoulang scolded with a modest smile, "What are you smart, it's just for fun, but now there are so many strangers in the county, how dare I let them go out and wander around, I won't bring them next time."
"They're fine if they don't have money with them," said the stall owner. "Nowadays in the city, there are people who steal money and food, but there really aren't any who take pictures of children."
The stall owner said: "Children are not worth much nowadays. I heard that a bag of sixty catties of millet can buy a seven or eight-year-old girl outside, and smaller ones can be bought for twenty catties."
Zhou Zhoulang was dumbfounded, "This, is it so serious?"
He looked around and whispered: "Isn't that right? I have an uncle who specializes in selling food on official roads. He said that the whole area of Yizhou was washed away by water, not to mention food, even the houses were destroyed." There was no roof, and many people were swept away by the water, and they disappeared immediately. If you think about it, they even lost their houses, let alone food. Gone."
Tuesday Lang's face turned pale.
The stall owner sighed, "Look at this scene, does it look like the severe drought in the eleventh year of Dade, fortunately, this flood is not particularly serious here. Although the crops in the fields are definitely not good, there are still some harvests, not like In the eleventh year of Dade..."
Zhou Zhoulang's eyes darkened, and he felt that the voice of the stall owner was becoming more and more indistinct, but he just heard, "We were in trouble at that time, my brother and my sister starved to death at that time, and my family lived." One for me...Tuesday, what's wrong with you, why is your face pale?"
Zhou Zhoulang stood up with his support on the wall, forced a smile and said, "It's okay, it might be from the sun."